Jonathan Lewis, of Attleborough, Norfolk, was on a family holiday on the Greek island as the flames were blown towards the coast, where he was staying, and decided to rescue stranded families.
Fires burning since Wednesday on the Greek island forced the evacuation of 30,000 people over the weekend as an inferno reached resorts on the southeastern coast.
Holidaymakers fleeing the crisis on Rhodes today described chaos as they try to get home including seeing UK tourists landing on the Greek island being immediately ushered into rescue buses .
Greece s Prime Minister has warned the country is at war as wildfires ripped through Rhodes and Corfu, as the Government in Athens put Crete on level 5 alert.